Midwest Humanistic Education
Liberal education is intended to enlarge the mind and expand its capacity, regardless of the professional studies a student may pursue during his/her college studies. This paper will explore liberal education in high profile universities and also other universities in Ohio. In addition, this paper will explore whether or not Miami University’s Miami Plan is an appropriate system of providing the breadth of human knowledge. U.S. News and World Report ranks Amherst College as the top liberal arts school in the nation.15 At Amherst students face a purely open liberal education program; students there select their own program of expanded studies. The knowledge students gain while at Amherst is a direct product of their own pursued interests. U.S. News also ranks the University of Pennsylvania as the number one business school in the nation. Penn students must take a total of ten courses outside their field of study. During the first two years of schooling, students must enroll in one class from each of the following distributional requirements: society (art, psychology, other social studies courses), history, English, formal reasoning (mathematics), physical science, and natural science. Also, students must take a total of two cou
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